Brakes are hot...

Well I brought the heat sensor gun home and me and my brother in law took it for a spin yesterday. First 5 miles without the plug in. No heat at all on the drums. Plugged it in and drove about 25 miles up to hiway speed with lots of braking. Brakes were kind of hot to the touch but read 172*. Everything seemed fine. Maybe their "expert" did get them adjusted right. I still may take it to a second shop and get another opinion though...

I'm curious whether your brakes are self-adjusting or manually adjusted.  I'm new to the forum and joined because R-Pod is currently at the top of my buy list.  One reason is that FR lists self adjusting brakes as a feature in their 2014 R-Pod brochures and I don't like crawling under a trailer every 3.000 miles or so to manually adjust the brakes.  While researching self adjusting brakes I saw a post on another forum that described a problem similar to yours.  The owner had installed Dexter Nev-R-Adjust brakes and one of the brakes was overheating.  He eventually discovered that the drum was not within tolerance and that was causing the constantly adjusting brakes to be too tight.  

Originally posted by techntrek If you can hold your hand on the hub of each wheel immediately after stopping, you are ok.

X2... I check the hubs every time I stop. Check the tire temperature too. I had a fire in one of my big trailers - bearing.

love this auto correct just drove 200 miles with no problems

Originally posted by HuronSailor Could the trailer be wired wrong? Maybe, but I've been to the factory and they check all the wiring with a diagnostic tool before it leaves the door.

I know the problem the OP had has hopefully been solved but-

When I picked up my 2014 179 I noticed the left and right turn signals were reversed...dealer thought it must be my tow vehicle- I thought not as I have pulled many trailers with it.
They brought out a fancy tester box (diagnostic tool) and confirmed the rpod was wired wrong.
Tech found the problem where they spliced the 7 way pigtail under the left front corner...left and right wires were reversed somewhere between there and the taillights.  He cut the splices flipped the pair and fixed it.

I laugh every time I see the blurb on the back of their brochure about their 20,000 square foot quality assurance facility and their "premium" product.